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| Good evening. Here's the latest. |
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| 1. That "send her back" chant at President Trump's re-election rally last night? He said he tried to cut it off. Video contradicts his claim. |
| Republicans have tried to distance themselves from the refrain, directed at Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a hijab-wearing freshman Democrat whom the president has singled out repeatedly. |
| In the afternoon, Mr. Trump shifted to new tensions with Iran, saying the U.S. shot down an Iranian drone that approached a Navy ship. |
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| 2. The acting secretary of homeland security faced sharp questioning from House Democrats in a hearing. |
| "What does that mean when a child is sitting in their own feces? Can't take a shower?" Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland asked Kevin McAleenan. "What's that about?" |
| Family separations, raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the president's demand for a border wall have remade homeland security. The Times Magazine looked at how the zero-tolerance policy came to be. |
| And our Opinion section asked children in New York to read accounts given by their peers held in U.S. Border Patrol facilities. They do a better job than we can of portraying the conditions. |
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| 3. The House passed a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15, a once implausible idea even on the left, and a hint of what Democrats might do if they capture the Senate and the White House in 2020. |
| The bill would more than double the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 an hour — about $15,000 a year for someone working 40 hours a week. The measure faces a stiff blockade in the Senate. Above, Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill today. |
| Looking ahead to 2020: A live drawing tonight on CNN will determine the lineups of the next Democratic debates. It will have the sheen of the N.F.L. draft with the analysis from Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer. |
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| 4. 110 degrees. |
| That's how high the heat index — reflecting both temperature and humidity — may get this weekend in the Midwest. It's going to be a scorcher in about two-thirds of the country. Here's how bad it's going to get. A cold front is expected to cool things off by early next week. New York, above, is one of the 12 states under an excessive heat warning. |
| And yes, climate change makes heat waves hotter and longer. Our climate reporter explains. |
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| 5. From heat wave to wind energy: New York State says it will soon have the country's largest offshore wind farm projects. |
| Planned off the coast of Long Island, the wind projects are meant to be an important component of the state's plan to get 70 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. Right now, the only commercial offshore wind farm in the U.S. is near Block Island, R.I. |
| In this week's Climate:Fwd newsletter, our writers look at a new study that showed how many more trees could grow on Earth (about 2.5 billion acres of forest, helping sop up 200 gigatons of carbon). Here's what kind of tree you should plant. |
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| 6. A gruesome arson in Japan: |
| In one of the deadliest attacks in the country in decades, a man ignited a flammable liquid at an anime studio in the city of Kyoto on Thursday, killing 33 people and injuring dozens more, the police said. The studio, Kyoto Animation, is a highly regarded producer of anime and revered by fans. |
| The police said the 41-year-old suspect had entered the building screaming "Die!" and collapsed after he tried to escape the flames, Japanese news outlets reported. He was being treated for burns. |
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| 7. A federal judge denied Jeffrey Epstein bail, rejecting his request to stay in his mansion under guard until his sex-trafficking trial. |
| Judge Richard Berman emphasized the financier's danger to others, particularly his accusers and "prospective victims as well." He said that Mr. Epstein's proposed bail package — a hefty bond and house arrest at his mansion secured by private guards — was "irretrievably inadequate." |
| "I doubt that any bail package can overcome danger to the community," the judge said. Above, a court sketch from today's hearing. |
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| 8. Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away: "Sesame Street" will be among those receiving Kennedy Center Honors in December for lifetime achievement in the arts. |
| It is the second time the Kennedy Center is bestowing the honor on a work of art rather than an individual ("Hamilton," recognized last year, was the first). Other honorees are the R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, the actress Sally Field, the singer Linda Ronstadt and the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. |
| In New York City, The Times's art critics came up with 10 first-rate museum exhibitions they recommend, many of which are closing soon. |
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| 9. Everybody needs a little calm these days. |
| Our critic-at-large, Amanda Hess, found it in a stranger's voice in her phone, talking her to sleep. She wanted to hear the woman in person, so she went to Toronto. |
| Tamara Levitt, above, has recorded hundreds of meditations for "Calm," one of a handful of smartphone apps that aim to ease problems often delivered through the same device — distraction, obsession, anxiety, stress. The apps "represent something that feels totally remote," Amanda writes. (Get your earphones ready; her story is packed with audio clips.) |
| While the business of voices lulling you to sleep may be booming, have podcasts … peaked? They've certainly produced a degree of cultural exhaustion. |
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| 10. And lastly, a pioneering bird-watcher. |
| She started with a grass-roots campaign to protect birds at the turn of the 20th century, but Florence Merriam Bailey's dedication led to a revolutionary approach to bird-watching: quietly examining birds in their natural habitat, rather than killing them for examination. Bailey died in 1948, and never received a Times obituary until now. |
| "When going to watch birds," she wrote, "proceed to some good birdy place — the bushy bank of a stream or an old juniper pasture — and sit down in the undergrowth or against a concealing tree-trunk, with your back to the sun, to look and listen in silence." |
| Have a tranquil evening. |
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